Type

Text

Type

Thesis

Advisor

James Lattimer. | Alan Calder | Maria Victoria Fernandez-Serra.

Date

2011-08-01

Keywords

MIT Bag Model, Quark Stars, Strange Stars | Physics -- Astrophysics

Department

Department of Physics

Language

en_US

Source

This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/11401/71657

Publisher

The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.

Format

application/pdf

Abstract

We study strange stars under the assumption of the strange matter hypothesis, using an MIT bag model to describe strange matter. We find that a 1.97 solar masses star (as recently measured) is generally possible in the context of the bag model, although it places restrictions on the bag model's parameters. Furthermore, limits for the central pressure and energy density are obtained.

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